| Description |
1 online resource (x, 246 pages) |
| Contents |
1. The Bow in the Clouds -- 2. God is Love: The Word Agape in the New Testament -- 3. Arrows, Eros, Agape -- 4. Eros, the Socratic Spirit: Inside and Outside the Symposium -- 5. The Power of the Beloved: Aristotle on the Unmoved Mover -- 6. Friends, Friendship, and Loving Others: Aristotle and Aquinas -- 7. Philanthropia, God's Love for Mankind in Origen -- 8. Dionysius the Areopagite's Divine Names and the Meaning of 'God is Love' -- 9. Bonds of Love: Augustine, Dionysius, and Aquinas -- Appendix: Anders Nygren and Gregory Vlastos |
| Summary |
Few books on love can claim to make significant contributions to our understanding both of ancient views on eros and of its place in the Christian tradition. On the basis of a new and sympathetic reading of Plato, Catherine Osborne shows that the long-standing distrust of eros, rather than agape, as a model for the believer's relation to God in Christian thought derives from a misunderstanding of ancient thought on love. Focussing on a number of classic texts, including Plato's Symposium and Lysis, Aristotle's Ethics and Metaphysics, and famous passages in Gregory of Nyssa, Origen, Dionysius the Areopagite, Plotinus, Augustine, and Thomas Aquinas, she shows that love is not motivated by a need that seeks fulfilment. On the contrary, Dr Osborne argues, to seek a motive for love, whether in Plato's account or our own, is to pursue a philosophical confusion |
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To mention love is to mention the motive that explains our response of affection or devotion or desire; the response cannot be the motive for our love, but is an attitude that belongs in a vision of the beloved transfigured by love. It is for this reason that we have to restore the image of Cupid, whose mischievous darts picture the impossibility of seeking some further grounds or explanation for love |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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Print version record |
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Flaemmings, Friederich. gnd |
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Plato v427-v347 gnd |
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Liebe, ... gnd |
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Plato. nli |
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Plato. swd |
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Love -- History -- To 1500
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Philosophy, Ancient.
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Philosophy, Medieval.
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Love
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Philosophy, Ancient
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Philosophy, Medieval
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Philosophie
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Geschichte
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Eros Begriff
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Liefde.
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Eros (god)
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Eros (Greek deity)
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Agape (Greek word)
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Love.
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Platonic love.
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Philosophy, Ancient.
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Philosophy, Medieval.
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
94015728 |
| ISBN |
1280810696 |
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9781280810695 |
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9780191683336 |
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0191683337 |
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